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The O Monster is going to get me - Subscribe
At the beginning of the year, I've went hiking with 230 over friends in the woods. We have all been warned about a scary monster who looks like an "O" and who will eat people who are slow.
When I was in the woods, I saw no sign of the O monster. Thus, I thought that the legend is false and there is no such monster in reality. However, some of my friends have already started to run off, just after they first heard about the O monster.
"There's no monster, what are they scared of?" I thought. So, day after day, weeks after weeks, I hiked my way through the woods slowly, examining any unusual fauna and flora on my way and enjoying the lush greenery around me.
Then, during the fifth month, we were reminded that we have to get out of the woods by October, if not the O monster will get us.
Frightened by the thought of not being able to get out of the woods forever, we all ran, but not for long.
We stopped after we felt that we have ran quite a distance, and slept for a month.
Then we were woken up by a noisy "crunch" sound. We looked in the direction of the noise, and we gasped at what we saw.
It is the O monster! Though it was a few kilometers away from us, it looked as tall as a mature 25-year-old tropical rainforest tree!
We all stood rooted to the ground in fear for a few moment.
Then, some of us woke up from our fear and started running. When we were running, we looked back a few times and I saw that there were still people who have not waken up from their fear; or, perhaps, they could not.
We ran, but nobody ever ran back to save the other friends who were going to be eaten up by the O monster.
We have been running for days, but still, we could see the outline of the O monster far, far away.
We cursed and we swore. We hated ourselves for not believing the tale from the beginning. We hated ourselves for only running for our lives after we have seen the O monster for ourselves.
"Why?", we once screamed while running. "Why are we so STUPID?"
*The O Monster is a metaphor for the "O" level examinations.*
It taught us that money cannot be used to solve all problems and we should not crave for repays when we helped others, and most importantly, we should not forget our basic courtesy and we must remember to thank the people who had helped us in our life. 
